Circuit and System Level Tools for Thermal-Aware Reliability Assessments of IC Designs
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Integrated circuits are often designed using simple and conservative 'design rules' to ensure that the resulting circuits will meet reliability goals. This simplicity and conservatism leads to reduced performance for a given circuit and metallization technology. To address this problem, we had developed a TCAD tool, ERNI, which allows process-sensitive and layout-specific reliability estimates for fully laid out or partially laid out integrated circuits (Y. Chery, S. Hau-Riege) (see figure 1).
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